Lead Engineer(KUBERENETS OPERATIONS)

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Evaluate technical options for meeting user needs and ensure that system requirements are identified, prioritized, and incorporated in an effective, efficient manner.
• Translate application requirements into system requirements that can then be used to design and implement the operating environment for applications to run in a Kubernetes CaaS platform.
• Evaluate legacy application design and recommend fundamental application redesign changes required to function in a Kubernetes CaaS platform.
• Responsible for developing standards and provides guidance to management and peers.
• Demonstrates strong communication skills needed to demonstrate developed and integrated solutions for a Kubernetes CaaS platform.
• Evaluate new Cloud CaaS Solutions to determine value within Verizon’s IT.
• Perform POC (Proof of Concept) technical evaluations for new technologies for use in the Cloud.
• Perform analyses of various Cloud CaaS platforms setting up comprehensive test and evaluation plans, and summarizing test results. Assess potential benefits to Verizon.
• Set the technical direction and determine work priorities based on interactions with the Cloud Architecture teams, the Cloud and Software Vendors, and the Verizon Application teams.
• Communicate with management and executive leadership to ensure the team’s goals and priorities align with the department, but not on what the individual work tasks are or the technical strategy for implementing the solution.
• Lead problem resolution for business impacting failures and drive the resolution to meet platform service level objectives. This includes assembling resources from existing team members and engaging other engineering resources from peer teams in order to restore service disruptions.
• Manage the crisis bridge, and to escalate to the manager and director levels when necessary to engage resources from the necessary product owning teams.
• Decide upon the recovery method, establish the recovery plan, and to drive/implement the recovery plan for the affected platform during the crisis bridge. Upon the resolution, this individual will perform a detailed root cause analysis involving the necessary resources.
• Understand architecting and engineering large enterprise solutions to achieve cost efficiencies, scaling, and availability for a large enterprise environment. Interactions will take place with Senior Management and DMTS/Associate Fellow/Fellow architects along with interfacing with peer engineers across the enterprise.